I translated this with Google Translate and ran it through Copilot to smooth the language. I hope it’s accurate, because the piece is powerful.
Reading it, I kept thinking of Madeleine Albright’s answer to Lesley Stahl’s question about the half‑million Iraqi children who died under sanctions: “The price is worth it.” I don’t have polite words for leaders who make decisions like that — then or now.
Feels appropriate to drop some remixes to go along with the Reagan era remix—Stephen Miran’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board is just the latest track in a long playlist of dollar devaluation, austerity for the rest of us, and profits for the usual suspects. Still waiting on a proper critique from economists like Michael Roberts or Michael Hudson, but from what I’ve gathered so far, the “Miran Doctrine” is collapse choreography: pain for the working class, leverage for capital.
Marx saw this coming: the ruling class conjures up the ghosts of past ideologies to mask present-day extraction.
So here’s this DJ set of Madonna remixes—because I need an escape, and maybe you do too.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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